How I publish write-ups

Practice platforms let people publish solutions only under certain conditions. These are the rules this site follows. The build checks the first and third automatically and refuses to publish a page that breaks them.

1. Retired content only

For Hack The Box, I publish write-ups only for content HTB allows:

• retired Machines, Challenges, Sherlocks and Endgames
• Starting Point machines
• Tier 0 Academy modules

Every Hack The Box write-up records the date the content retired. A write-up without that date, or with a date in the future, fails the build.

2. Check each platform’s own rules

TryHackMe, PortSwigger and other platforms each have their own terms. I check the room or lab’s page before publishing.

3. No flags, hashes or credentials

Flags, password hashes and credentials are replaced with [REDACTED], even for retired content. The build scans every page for flag formats and 32-character hex strings and stops if it finds one.

4. Mistakes get fixed

If you spot something that breaks these rules, or a mistake in a write-up, contact me through the links in the header and I’ll fix it.